Roger Highfield
Museum exec, writer & visiting prof at @Dunn_School and @UCLChemistry. Ex New Scientist Editor & Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph. Neutron bouncer
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The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno
Nearly a year after flames consumed Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, researchers are struggling to revive their work and resume their lives.
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The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno
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Ancient Mongolian nests show that dinosaurs protected their eggs
The fossils provide the first clear example of group nesting activities in dinosaurs.
Fifty years on: recollecting Apollo 11 launch day
As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission draws nearer, Science Museum curator John Liffen reminisces about watching the launch from the museum.
Alan Turing’s lesser-known Manchester connection
Mathematician and writer Jonathan Swinton takes a look at Alan Turing’s personal connections to our collection
Why Alan Turing was the right choice for the £50 note
As one of those who lobbied for Alan Turing to be given a posthumous pardon for the ‘crime’ of being a homosexual, I am delighted that the Bank of England has announced that he will soon be given pride of place on the new £50 note.
Notables: 14 scientists who shaped our lives
Find out more about the scientists who made the Bank of England's shortlist to be the face of the new £50 note, and discover why Alan Turing was a worthy winner.
Celebrating science on the new £50 note: Turing tops the shortlist
We now know the next £50 note will be adorned by the mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptanalyst Alan Turing but there were many leading contenders for the honour, such as Stephen Hawking, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Dorothy Hodgkin.
Want to become a spy? GCHQ unveils top secret artefacts used to entice young recruits
The agency has given dozens of objects to London's Science Museum for a new exhibition
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Want to become a spy? @GCHQ unveils top secret artefacts used to entice young recruits in #TOPSECRET at the @sciencemuseum
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Is Immortality Worth It? | by Martin Rees
Almost everyone would welcome an extension of their healthy lifespan, and some scientists are looking at increasingly extreme ways to achieve that. But any major breakthrough in this area could have unwanted and far-reaching demographic, social, and...
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'I would rather end my days in an English churchyard than an American freezer' Is immortality Worth It? by Martin Rees
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Click - 1001 a Space Odyssey
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing Click visits Nasa.
China plans CFC-monitoring network to investigate rogue emissions
The move follows a recent study that attributed a spike in an ozone-depleting chemical to two Chinese provinces.
Top university split in row over erasing ‘racist’ science pioneers from the campus
University College London may rename buildings to cut links to promoters of eugenics
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Year Zero at @ucl? University split in row over erasing ‘racist’ science pioneers from the campus
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Researchers show how AI can be used to more quickly and accurately diagnose breast cancer
Breast ultrasound elastography is an emerging imaging technique used by doctors to help diagnose breast cancer by evaluating a lesion's stiffness in a non-invasive way. USC researchers identified the critical role machine learning can play in making...
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Researchers show how #AI can be used to more quickly and accurately diagnose breast cancer
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Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet
Auroraceratops, a bipedal dinosaur that lived roughly 115 million years ago, has been newly described by an international team of researchers led by paleontologist Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania and former student Eric Morschhauser,...
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Auroraceratops (in Latin, "dawn's horned face", in honour of Dawn Dodson), a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet bit.ly/2LRZoMC via @Penn
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An early dispersal of modern humans from Africa to Greece
Fossil from Greece is the earliest known Homo sapiens in Europe.
Apollo 11: Britain planned to put a man on the Moon by 1968, lost documents show
Britain had drawn up plans to put a man on the Moon by 1968, newly discovered archives show.
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Apollo 11: Britain planned to put a man on the Moon by 1968, lost documents show
telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/0… via @TelegraphSci
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